Card-hanger



H. S. HACK.

CARD HANGER.

(No Model.)

Patented June 5, 1888.-

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UNITED STATES l PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY s. HACK, or TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARD-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,034:. dated June 5, 1888.

Application filed August 8, 1887. Serial No. 246,405. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY S. HACK, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Hanger for Cards or the Like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of a blank made from sheet metal; Fig. 2, an edge view of the finished hanger made of the sheet-metal blank shown in Fig. 1. Fig.3 is an edge view looking down on the upper edge of the hanger shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a front view of Figs. 2 and 3 applied to a card. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 illustrate my device in a slightly-different form, Fig. 5 being a front view of the wire blank, Fig. 6 an edge view, and Fig. 7 a top edge view of the finished wire hanger shown applied to a card in Fig. 8. 7

My invention is a hanger, which can be readily applied to acard or other thin material, and which will hold firmly, its main purpose being to attach an eye, ring, or the like to a sheet of card-board, in order that the sheet may be suspended on the wall.

In the drawings, a at are legs or tines. The legs or tines a are each provided with a claw or holding-point, a. The leg or tine a may also have one or more holding-points, a. The legs a a. are connected together in any suitable way, and may be in one piece with or connected to the ring a or equivalent'device. The card or other sheet material extends between the legs a and a, so that the legs a are on one side and the legs a" on the other side of the card, the claws or holding-points a sticking into the card or sheet material and causing the device to be firmly attached to it.

In practice, when my device is made of sheet metal, I prefer to make it as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, and so turn the holding-points a that the legs a shall stand in front and the legs or behind the sheet. When made of wire, I prefer to make the legs a and a of a single piece of wire and the ring a separate from the legs a a, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8.

The main novelty of my device is the arrangement of the legs a a, each sharpened at its end and with its sharpened end bent to form a claw with relation to the intermediate part, (1*, which may have claws, as shown in Fig. 1, or be without, as shown in Fig. 5.

I am aware that Patents No. 303,381, of 1884, and No. 204,875, of 1878, show devices similar to mine in some respects, and I disclaim all that is shown in these patents, for my invention is a device which consists, essentially, of two legs, a a, each sharpened at its end and each having its end bent to form a claw, with a third leg, of, between the legs a a, all so arranged that both claws will penetrate the card, as shown in Figs. 4 and 8, and both will be held to their work by the intermediate leg, a, thereby giving the device a much more satisfactory attachment to the card than is possible with a single leg coacting with a loop or hook, as shown in the patents above mentioned. I therefore distinctly disclaim all devices made up of a loop or link of metal and an intermediate leg, whether with a claw, as in the pat ents above named, or without a claw, as in Patent No. 285,435, of 1883, for the distinguishing characteristic of my device is that it has two distinct outer legs not united together at their ends, (to form a link, as in Patent No. 303,381, or made intorings or spirals, as in Patent No. 204,875, or pronged by punching a tongue out of a plate of sheet metal, as in Patent No. 285,435,) but each having its end sharpened and bent to form a claw, each outer leg forming a spring in itself.

What I do claim is The device above described, consisting of the two outer legs, a a, and the intermediate leg, a", the two outer legs being each sharpened at its end and each having its sharpened end bent to form a claw, all substantially as set forth.

' HENRY S. HACK.

Witnesses:

J. E. MAYNADIER,

WM. MAYNADIER. 

